The Irish standard., 1887-09-03

CATHOLIC NEWS.
Religious Notes.
General Boulanger's daughter is
about to become nun.
Rev. Father Bergeron, of Chicago, is
quite i'll at his pastoral residence.
Rev. Father O Reilly, of Keokuk, Ia,
was in Denver the week before last.
The Rev. Father Hickey, of St. Pat
rick's Church, Chicago, is visiting in
Minnesota.
Rev. p. A. Schumacher, Of Water
ford. Wis, has been transferred to
Saukvllle.
St. Anthony's Church at Davenport,
Ia, is being enlarged so as to have a
seating capacity of 1900.
Father McGill, of Holy Rosary
Church, Milwaukee, cleared $500 from
his picnic, held the. other day.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Illinois will be held in Ottawa Septem-
ber z.
Father D. A. Tighe, pastor of the
Church of the Holy Angels. Oakwood,
ILL.,, returned home last week from New
York.
The Catholic schools of Milwaukee
will open September 5. The opening
last year showed an attendance of
1897.
Mother Lambertine, of Toledo, Ohio,
has been appointed Superior of the
Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor
in Milwaukee.
Rev. Father Weinman, lately Of Mil
waukee, will be the spiritual director of
the st. Vincent de Paul Society in the
Jesuit parish, Chicago.
Rev. Father Bosche, S. j., will take
position on the faculty of the Mar
quette College, Milwaukee, at the open
ing of the fall term of school.
Rev. Father Moron, who has been
dong pastoral duties at Brighton, Ia,
has been appointed pastor at Washing
ton to succeed Father Kirkpatrick.
Messrs. A. Amberg and McAdams
donated a horse to st. Elizabeth's hos
pital, Chicago, for which the Sisters of
the hospital desire te return thanks.
Mother Spaulding, Superior of the
Sacred Heart Convent, of st. Louis, has
been transferred to Chicago to take
charge of the Sacred Heart Convent
there
Sister Mary Clement, for twenty
nine years teacher and superior in St.
Marguerite's school, Davenport, Ia,
has been changed to new fields OF
labor.
The Rev. William Poland, Chicago,
will be on the faculty Of st. Ignatius'
College the coming season and will also
be the spiritual director Of the Young
Mems Sodality.
The Pope has conferred upon the
Duke of Norfolk the Grand Cross of the
Order of Christ. The Duke is about to
buy large palace in Rome in which to
establish a university.
1t is just 2,641 years since Romylus
laid off the city of Rome into streets
and alleys and began to sell lots. Rom
ulus had many imitators in Milwaukee
this year.-Milwaukee Citizen.
Rev. Father Roles, Chicago. left re-
Gently for Detroit and will sail for Eu-
rope in few days. He will attend the
international convention in the interest
of Catholicity in London during this
month.
Rev. Francis McC cCullough, the young
and jealous pastor Of Sioux City, re-
ceived a costly gold watch from his par.
ishioners on his birthday as a slight
token of the very high esteem in which
he is held.
There seems to be a lull in the New
York Protestant cathedral movement.
Subscriptions to the fund have not
rolled in rapidly, though he.enterprise
was energetically discussed.-Mil-
Waukee Citizen.
Bishop Cosgrove, of Davenport, Ia,
has transferred Rev. Father Kirkpat-
rick from Washington, Ia, to the pas
torate of St. Paul, Burlington. Rev. c.
Lowrey will take charge of St. Francis
Church, KeOkuk.
Rev. Walter H. Hill, Chicago. for the
past three years one of the pastors or
the Sacred Heart Church, is appointed
on oeoi stant at tha HOlv Family Church.